- #1 Little Big Workshop
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 25.3%, Automation 13%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.1%
- #2 Production Zero
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alloi Games
Windows
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Simulation 23.1%, Automation 18.2%, Isometric 15.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.5%
- #3 School Owner
96% matchMostly Negative23% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
Why similar: Simulation 22.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 10.3%, Isometric 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #4 Astral Enterprises
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 15%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Economy 10.4%, Management 9.1%
- #5 Complex SKY
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 14%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.4%
- #6 Production Line : Car factory simulation
94% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 14.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.6%, Economy 9.2%
- #7 Outer Factory
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Transportation 12.3% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Building 8%
- #8 City Masterplan
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1:1 Studio
Windows
Break the grid and build a true 1:1 scale metropolis. City Masterplan is a realistic city builder where traffic, citizens, and economy form a fully simulated system. Design complex road networks freely, manage real congestion, and shape a city through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Simulation 22.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Transportation 10.3% ★, Automation 8.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #9 MegaFactory Tycoon
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Simulation 24.3%, Automation 21%, Building 13.1%, Economy 8.7%, Management 6.2%
- #10 the Cellarer
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Transportation 11.1% ★
- #11 Rise of Industry
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 10.6%, Management 9.1%, Transportation 8.4% ★
- #12 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
89% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Transportation 12.1% ★, Isometric 10.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 9.7%
- #13 Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a nuclear power plant and manage reactors, generators, and turbines, producing energy to keep the city lit and prevent reactor explosions. Earn resources, research nuclear technologies, build larger and more modern reactors, refine uranium, and create a nuclear energy empire.
Why similar: Simulation 23.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Isometric 11.1%, Automation 10.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #14 Shopping Center Tycoon
88% matchPositive80% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, City Builder 13.9%, Building 13%, Management 11%, Economy 10%
- #15 InfraSpace
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 15.9% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Automation 12.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 7.6%
- #16 Dyson Sphere Program
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Space 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 9.7%
- #17 Islandustry
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 10.2%
- #18 Economicon
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gomo StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.
Why similar: Transportation 18.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, City Builder 13.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 9.4%
- #19 NationForge
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Transportation 20.8% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Automation 17.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #20 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 11%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #21 Subway Builder
82% matchMixed60% of 422 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Simulation 20%, Building 11.5%, Automation 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #22 Civilize
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Simulation 19.2%, Transportation 14.4% ★, Building 12.1%, Economy 8.9%
- #23 Modulus: Factory Automation
81% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, City Builder 13%, Simulation 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.7%
- #24 Production City
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mayor of the Month
Windows
Production City is a city builder focused on manufacturing, logistics, and politics. Build efficient production chains, make impactful (or questionable) decisions, and grow your city into an industrial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Transportation 18.9% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Building 11.5%, Economy 10%
- #25 Truck City
79% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Automation 14%, Base Building 10.2%, Simulation 8.7%
- #26 Automation Empire
80% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Simulation 15.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.1%, City Builder 8.6%
- #27 Spacebase DF-9
81% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,342 reviews2014
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Why similar: Simulation 21%, Base Building 17.1%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 10%, Building 9.8%
- #28 Life In Planet
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Batuhan YılmazPub: Codeks Studio
Windows
Build, arrive, and move into new regions and planets in the depths of space. Whether you will establish a colony and trade or train soldiers and fight, everything is in your hands.
Why similar: Simulation 24.5%, City Builder 19%, Isometric 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #29 Trafficity
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Onramp Games
Windows · Mac
A city builder focused on traffic. Build out your city with gridless road tools. Fix traffic jams with roundabouts, fully-customizable traffic lights, or sprawling highway interchanges. Keep traffic flowing as you expand to a vast metropolis.
Why similar: Transportation 26.3% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Automation 14.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Building 11.3%
- #30 Dubai Simulator
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mobilway S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
In Dubai Simulator, you'll have the chance to design and build your dream city, complete with towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, luxurious resorts, and awe-inspiring landmarks.
Why similar: Simulation 28.4%, City Builder 22.5%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Economy 7.9%
- #31 Pixel Airport Tycoon 3D
76% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: PAT-Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own airport – in classic 2D or full 3D. From your first runway to an international hub: terminals, cargo, customs, weather & de-icing, airline contracts, staff and research. Plan smart and become the world's best airport tycoon!
Why similar: Simulation 17.9%, Transportation 16.1% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.7%
- #32 Nightlife Tycoon
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: City Builder 14.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Automation 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Economy 9.5%
- #33 Smart Factory Tycoon
77% matchMixed60% of 941 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 14%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.1%, Automation 8.2%
- #34 Factory Town
75% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Transportation 10.4% ★
- #35 FluxWerks
73% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Transportation 15.9% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 12.5%
- #36 Spaceflight Factory
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Transportation 15.2% ★, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Simulation 9.3%
- #37 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Isometric 10.3%
- #38 Comet Tycoon
73% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Isometric 12.2%, Simulation 12%
- #39 SuperCitycon
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sunapie Games
Windows · Mac
Classic city building meets a crisp, modern 3D world with a retro-inspired 16-bit palette. Shape vast maps, build living cities in a sandbox, and use SCC Studio to create or customize everything from terrain to buildings, vehicles and citizens. Share your creations through the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Transportation 13.1% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Building 12%, Isometric 8.1%
- #40 Cities in Motion 2
76% matchMixed57% of 2,548 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Why similar: Transportation 26.9% ★, Simulation 24.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #41 Builderment
72% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 9.1%
- #42 Quartermaster
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quartermaster Team
Windows
Quartermaster is a management strategy simulation in which you will build a top-secret agency to prepare elite spies for their missions! Research high-tech spy gadgets and run specialized training programs. Manage your staff and stay alert for double agents looking to sabotage your operation.
Why similar: City Builder 14.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Isometric 8.2%
- #43 Two Point Campus
71% matchVery Positive88% of 8,220 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Simulation 17.2%, Building 13.7%, Management 12.2%, Isometric 10.2%
- #44 Project AURA
73% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Building 9%, Economy 8.1%, Management 8%
- #45 Copacetic
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Simulation 18.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Automation 11%, Management 10.8%, City Builder 9.5%
- #46 Infindustry
71% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Transportation 16.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 11%
- #47 Resort Galactica
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: City Builder 14.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #48 Stardustry
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CherryBit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.
Why similar: Simulation 24.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 9.1%, Economy 7.7%
- #49 ROADS: Tangled in Traffic
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SamPub: Super Swine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The city is strangled by its own explosive growth. Identify the chokepoints, invest in infrastructure, and redesign the network. One well-placed roundabout could nurse it back to life. Can you relieve the pressure and let prosperity flow as freely as the traffic?
Why similar: Transportation 24.8% ★, Simulation 22.9%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.6%
- #50 Macaronpolis
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Transportation 17.6% ★, Automation 14.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%
- #51 Twas The Night
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mayham Games
Windows
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Why similar: Simulation 26.7%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Isometric 10.7%, Management 9.5%
- #52 Automation Station
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 8.7%
- #53 Cities: Skylines II
67% matchMixed56% of 92,848 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.7 hrsMean: 77.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Simulation 17.9%, Building 12.7%, Transportation 10.4% ★, Economy 8.7%
- #54 Factory Town 2: Paradise
66% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Simulation 13%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.1%
- #55 The Crust
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Space 9%
- #56 Fill the Sky
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #57 Fab.exe
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BT Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Automation 17.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13.4%
- #58 StarScraper
68% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mitchell GarrettPub: Rosae Ex Ludis
Windows
So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Transportation 17.3% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #59 Megapolis
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 165 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: Simulation 38.2%, City Builder 18%, Building 10.1%, Isometric 9.5%, Futuristic 6.1%
- #60 Cyber Lounge Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: TDSR Entertainment LLC
Windows
Cyber Lounge Tycoon is a sandbox management game where you get to build and customize your own gaming club. Serve each customer or get a staff to do that for you. Upgrade and maintain your existing services. Expand and unlock new options. Decide what kind of club you want to run!
Why similar: Simulation 17.5%, Automation 14.9%, Building 10.4%, Isometric 10.1%, Management 9.4%